The "where will you retire" thread got me thinking about "tiny houses" and living "off the grid".
So I went looking for cool tiny houses. Take a look at some of these.
tiny houses – small dwellings of every shape and size
Suppose you found the perfect property - on the Central California Coast, in Puget Sound, in the Sierras, whatever your taste - and wanted to make a pied a terre for your retirement years. Maybe just as one of a few places you would rotate between, or maybe as your full time home base.
How big a place would you need? Could you see yourself living in a place as small as shown in the link above?
(Let's presume you can also put up a garage, workshop, studio, man cave, etc on the property.)
Next question - often the prettiest bits of land are far from utilities.
Could you see living off the grid?
By that I mean solar panels/storage batteries, emergency generator, well, septic field/tank pump out, satellite internet, etc.
(I don't fully know the limitations and constraints of off-the-grid living. I assume the main one is electrical.)